Lacking motivation
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Does anyone else go through spells of feeling like you just cant be arsed to carry on with your projects?

Im seriously lacking motivation to keep going with the miglia at the moment,havnt touched the bloody thing for weeks and even when i did it was kind of half hearted.Mainly its due to spending a lot of time with the family and have started to get into mountain biking so not much free time at the moment.

Think the best plan is to just let it sit for a while and then come back to it when the enthusiasm returns.Anyone else have spells like this?

Cheers Ross.

Yep, for the past two years!!

My car's been pretty much on the cusp of being complete for over a year but I just cant summon the drive to get it done.

Really quite annoying considering how much ive spent on it.

Classic case of 'project completion syndrome'.

In the 13's at last!.. Just

Story of my life, to be honest. I haven't wanted to even look at the mini for a year or so. It's been rusting if front of my house and I haven't even thought about it for about 6 months. I'm the same with everything though. My final diet of exams start tomorrow and I began studying today, just because I've no motivation.

Best bet is to sit it out, don't force anything and I'm sure the enthusiasm will come back to you.

On 12th Nov, 2009 Paul S said:

I think Gary OS has taken over my role as the forum smart arse

Im currently having that problem with the daily. MOT is due and i had a split cv boot. Simple job turned into a nightmare, now got a long list of things to replace on that side. Plus i need to treat some rust.

Much rather be working on my project.

Manchester Minis

i'm the opposite i have exams next week but really have no motivation to study for them but wanna work on my mini lol

forcing myself down the library tomorrow for some osmosis

ye i evan debated tucking mine in the back of the workshop an buying a bike for the summer :S

Drop A Gear An Floor It

i had the same inssue for a while - I didn't go anywhere near the workshop to do anything of substance for at least 6 months

I can't be bothered with work, would much rather be playing with the cars.

Building the van's engine over the weekend and the arrival of some more fun tools (as Rob H will agree) has upped my motivation for the mini somewhat.

Edited by Star Mag on 17th May, 2010.

i must be putting 60 hours a week into my mini, aswell as 5 nights a week at work, running out of energy fast, i have reached the point where it takes alot of time, effort and money to get nowhere, determined to hit avon in it, non turbo for a few reasons, but cannot wait should be turbo before mitp

Yes i moved to the darkside

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Same here, but I find after spells of working relentless hours fixing the dam thing motivation is soon restored after driving it. Ive been spending a fair amount of time playing with other cars in recent months and its quite pleasent going back to the mini to tinker.
Shane